The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1932, Page 2

Econ oyERER eRe Rte THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1982 WILL TRAIN §,300 \Kidnaping Is Highly-Organized From New York City to Denver YOUTH CANDIDATES INTTH CORPS AREA 4,211 Young Men in Northwest; Already Have Asked C. M. T. C. Privileges Omaha, Neb., March 7.—Plans for the Citizens Military Training Camps for 1932, just announced by Major General Johnson Hagood, command- ing the Seventh Corps Area, con- template training 5,300 candidates from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis- souri, and Arkansas. Although March 1 was the first day designated for the filing of appli- cations for these camps, 4,211 young men already had applied on that date. Camps will be established for 30 days from Aug. 2 to Aug. 31 at Fort} Crook, Nebr., Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Fort Snelling, Minn.; from June 16 to July 15 at Fort Lincoln, North Dakota; from July 12 to Aug. 10 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; from July 15 to Aug. 13 at Camp Pike, Arkansas; and. for colored candidates, from June 18} to July 17 at Fort Riley, Kansas. ‘The object of the C. M. T. Camps, General Hagood states, is to develop the manhood of the nation by bring- ing together young men of high type from all walks of life, in the same uni- form, on a common basis of equality, and under the most favorable condi- tions of outdoor life, to each them the privileges, duties, and responsi- bilities of American citizenship; to in- culcate self-discipline and obedience ‘and to develop these young men phy. Abducting Syndicates in Differ- ent Cities Have Recipro- | city Agreements This is the second of a series of four articles dealing with the kid- naping crime in the United Ciates. By BRUCE CATTON Organized crime in America today has turned kidnaping into one of the underworld’s most profitable rackets. ‘Thereby, it has added a frightening new element to the progressive break- down of law enforcement agencies; throughout the country. | The shock that jarred the entire! nation when the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped has served to focus atten- tion on the fact that there are kid- naping rings today, and that the law- abiding citizen has very little defense’ against them. The modern kidnaper is just as much a specialist in his line as are the underworld booze runners, “chop- pers,” gambling kings and so on. And the kidnaper has now arrived at the point where he no longer hesitates about going outside of the underworld for his victisas. Originally, kidnaping was strictly a between-us-gangsters racket—ex- cept, of course, for sporadic cases in which one or two men operated alone. Gambling, booze and vice rackets | in the big cities grouped together large numbers of paid gunmen—profession- al “hard guys,” who were seldom both- | ered by the police and who were con- | stantly ready for absolutely any crime i where are growing so alarmed over it. WASHINGTON In Washington, bills have been in- troduced by Senator Patterson and Congressman Cochran, of Missouri, to make interstate kidnaping a feder- al offense punishable by death or life imprisonment. Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, chairman of the House ju- Giciary committee which is consider- ing the Cochran bill, makes the fol- lowing point in connection with kid- naping cases: ‘Passage of any federal law should not divert public attention from the fact that if communities are going to let gangsters and criminals live in| their midst those criminals are going to commit crimes in order to live.” Congressman Sumners believes the death penalty should be provided for kidnaping. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee which is consid- | ering the Patterson bill, is not so sure. “It is probable,” he says, “that cer-| tainty of the death penalty would cause some kidnapers to kill their vic- tims in order to destroy the witness. and some crimes are so inhuman that | proper punishment is hard to con- ceive.” Contradict Report | Of Note Made Last Week by Officials (Continued from page One) What is the basis for the disagree- ment between the police and Col. on the calendar. | It occurred to these men, here and} there, after a time, that the very un-| derworld figures who ‘were hiring} them were shinning targets for kid-| Lindbergh as to the method of pro- cedure in this case? There is absolutely no disagree- ment between Col. Lindbergh and the police. ‘BILLION-DOLLAR TAX MEASURE READY FOR HOUSE INTRODUCTION Provides Manufactures Tax, In- come Tax Boosts, Various Other Revenues Washington, March 17—()—The toughest portion of the bi-partisan reconstruction program confronted congress Monday in the big revenue bill, making an additional load of more than a billion dollars on the country’s tax payers. This necessity for bringing the fed- eral budget “out of the red” and back to a balance once again, was com- pleted and ready for introduction in the house at the outset of Monday’s session. The measure is expected to obtain approval in that chamber much as finally drawn by the ways and means committee, but no certain |But criminals must be adequately |prediction could be made as to what {punished as a protection to society,;would happen once the measure reached the senate. At the end of two months of effort the committee evolved a bill estimat- ed to raise $1,096,000,000. More than half will come from a two and a quar- ter per cent sales tax on finished manufactures; income taxes are to be} increased, personal rates from 1%4 to 2 per cent for the first $4,000 (with exemptions reduced to $1,000 and $2,- 500 for single and married taxpayers respectively), corporate rates from 12 to 13 per cent; ‘a sur-tax of one to 40 per cent will be placed on earnings’ above $10,000; estate and gift taxes will be increased. The income tax rates become effective u year hence. Special taxes added or increased in- cluded charges on amusement admis- | {of pressure from central Europe for a of the French cabinet) and twice|/bandit trio which robbed bank minister of education. yr French republic, was denied his fellow parliamentarians, Defeat Hits Europe Coming on top of the endorsement of Briand policies his defeat for the presidency hit Europe with dramatic force. Germany wondered if France had committed herself to a cessation of efforts for a complete Franco-Ger- man rapproachement and Italy and England, remembered uneasily their positions as guarantors of the Lo- carno pact. In Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia there jwas a stiffening of nationalistic back- jbones which had begun to feel effects ‘bor, Ind., after his automobile was involved in a collision. He took his life, officers believe, in fear his iden- tity would be discovered. Cook and Shaffer were captured Saturday near Grand Rapids. During 1931 a million country folk moved to big cities. Maybe they were seeking @ little solitude. | latch Your Kidneys/ Don’t Neglect Kidney and Binddee Irregularities If bothered with bladder ir- tegularities, getting up at night and nagging backache, heed promptly these symptoms. hey may warn of some dis- ordered kidney or bladder con- dition. For 50 years grateful users have relied upon Doan’s Pills. Praised the country over. Sold by all druggists. revision of the peace treaties. Briand offered his resignation as foreign minister, but was persuaded to continue in office. League of Na- tions circles hailed this development with relief as insuring his continued activity. But subsequent developments indi- cated that Briand was losing his- hold on the French imagination. Last July 18 Heinrich Bruening came from Berlin on the first official visit to Paris of a German chancellor in 60 years. More bent than ever— his most vitriolic opponents uséd to call him “the hunchbacked cat”—with one foot dragging and leaning on a cane, Briand fairly hobbled to the station to greet the German envoys. Hardly Word to Say There were two days of negotiations in Paris and, the following week, 2 conference of seven powers in Lon- don. But through all of them Briand had hardly a word to say. \Yet two years earlier, when the five-power naval conference met in London, he, although nominally subordinate to his then premier, Tardieu, had been the directing brains of the French policy. Aristride Pierre Henri Briand was born at Nantes, Brittany, May 28, 1862, of @ Breton father and a Ven- deean mother. They were of peasant stock but Had deserted the land to engage in retail commerce. During his childhood they took over a little sa- CERTIFICATE OF CONSTITUTION- * AL AMENDMENTS , A. C, Isaminger, Auditor of Bur- leigh County, North Dakota, do her by Certify that the within and fol- lowing 1s a true and correct list of Constitutional — Amendments which have been Certified to me by _ the Secretary of State to be voted on Tuesday March 15th, 1932. rppated at Bismark, N. D., Feb. 15th, te and paying the fee therefor, which Ml otherwise fixed by the ies! be t of tw ¢ one per page”), follows: Be It Enacted By the People of the Stat ft North Dakota Sec. 25.'The legislative power of this state shall be vested in a legislature consisting of a senate and a representatives. The peopie, how- ir, reserve the power, first, to pro- pose mi ures and to enact or reject the sume at the polls; second, to ap- prove or reject at thé polls any mea- sure or any item, section, part or arts of any measure enacted by the legislature. e first power reserved is the initiative. Thirty thousand electors at large may propose gny measure by initintive petition... Every such pet!- tion shall contain the full text of the Measure and shall be filed with the Secretary of State not less than nine- ty days before the election at which it ts to be voted upon. The second power reserved ts referendum, ‘Twenty-five thous: electors at large may, by referendum petition, suspend the operation of any measure enacted by the legislature, except an emergency measure. But, the filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections or parts of any measure shall not prevent the remainder from going in; to effect. Such petition shall be tiled with the Secretary of State not later than ninety days after the adjourn- ment of the session of the legislature at which such measure was enacted. No initiative or referendum petition 11 be circulated or filed ing 2 rewalar or special session of the leg- ialature. Each measure initiated by or re- forred to the electors, shall be sub- mitted by its ballot title, which shall be placed upon the ballot by the Secretary of State and shall be voted upon at any state-wide election desig- nated in the petition, or at any spe- cial election called by the governor. The result of the vote upon any mea- d-und declared nvassers. 1 wo as to read as sure shall be can’ by the board of ‘Any measure, except an emergency jMeasure submitted to the electors of the state shall become a law when approved by a majority of the yotes cast thereon. And such law shall co into effect on the thirtieth day after the election, unless otherwise speci- fied in the measure. If a referendum petition is filed against an emergency measure, such measure ghall be a law until voted upon by the electors. And if it is then rejected. by a majority of the votes cast thereon, it shall be thereby repealed. Any such measure shall be submitted to the electors at a spe- cial election if so ordered by the Governor or if the referendum peti- house of | |The State livered by him du SSyered by auch stat Section ‘AMEN! Section 3 of Chay of the State of year 1929, 18 hy enacted to read a to enavery dealer paying queh license tax of being Table’ for fie payment thereof, shal be entitled to charge and collect the sum of four cents per gallon, on such motor e] sold by him, as @ part of the selling eof. price therec AMENDMENT.) That Section 5 of Chapter 166, sion par of the State of North Dakota for tl year 1929, is hereby anendee and re- ed to read as ei 5. That sald license tax in tor vehicle fuel sold or endar month, shall be statement pro- Had at the time. the, id al 12 parda°for in Section 3 hereof is ren ideG, to the State Auditor, who shall Feceipt. to, the dealer therefore, a Shall) forthwith pay 0 shally thus received to the State Treasurer, except, spent mendes r for the tate Audito stating refunds as herein provided, Treasurer shall promptly Gredit to the State Highway Conimis- Goal five-elenths of sald license tax. The money eo credited, being flve- dignths of sald license tax, 1s hereby~ Sipropriated to be used by such com- fiiesion forthe construction, recon- struction, highways, or roads under the Gietion of said. commission. Gighths of sald license ta: Pateed by him ti Dsited by him to a“ Rta Fund.” During the months of January, April, July and October of each year, the State Treasurer, upon the Warrant of the State Auditor, Shall apportion and disburse all of the moneys of such “County Highwi ‘Aid Fund” not previously, disbura including interest received thereon, to the various counties of the state in te xame proportion and ratio as the motor vehicle registration fund col- Tected In each county shall bear. to the total motor vehicle registration fund collected in ail the counties of the state during the entire preceding calendar ee as shown by the certi- ficate of tho. registrar of motor Vehicles, Such moneys #0 recelved by the respective counties shall be set aside in a separate fund, under the Jurisdiction and control of the board ot county commissioners and. appro- priated and employed solely by such Pounties in. the construction, recon- struction, maintenance and repair of unty highways, bridges an cul- Verts thereon leading up to and con- necting with federal ald and state Aid highways; provided however, the the County’ Commissioners are ‘hi Was the time at which the baby sically, mentally, and morally. yr} Was put to bed on the night of the t licants ined phy: tion filed against it shall be signed All applicants are examined p! napers. by thirty-five thousand electors at sions above 25 cents; stock transfers; |!oon in the rough seaside town of St. These men could be trusted nevel A. C. ISAMINGER, County Auditor. cally and those who meet the re- quirements are accepted for one of the training camps mentioned. Tra- vel expenses to the camps are refund- ed by paying candidates, upon arrival at camp, the travel allowance of five cents per mile for the distance from their homes to the nearest camp. The same allowance is paid for the return travel the day the candidates leave camp. All necessary expenses at the camp are paid by the government. Food, uniforms, lodging, athletic equipment, laundry service, and medi- cal care are furnished without ex- pense to the candidate. re No obligation for future militar, service of any kind is incurred by those who attend these camps. March King’s Death Is Finale to Career Spanning 40 Years (Continued from page One) | tras and giving violin lessons. His/ first engagement of importance was/ in 1877 when, as first violinist, he toured the country with the orches- tra of Jacques Offenbach, composer | of “The Tales of Hoffman. | One month before his 25th birth-; day, Sousa returned to the Marine| band as conductor and remained: with the organization 12 years. } In 1892 an opportunity came to the bandmaster to carry out a plan he! had had in mind for a long time—! the organization of a band of his own to present the works of great com-j posers before audiences which opera- tic companies and symphony orches- tras could not hope to reach. The | annual tours of his band created a) familiarity with and an appreciation | for good music throughout America and this is regarded by many as Sousa'’s greatest service in the field) of music. Had Regard For Merit Making up his concert programs) Sousa did so without regard to the composer or the title of the selection, but with great regard for its musical merit. Acceding to the wishes of his au- diences, Sousa was one of the first famous bandmasters to introduce Popular music as encore numbers at his concerts. It would be difficult to say wheth- er Sousa won greater fame as a band- master or as a composer. In the lat- ter role he was prolific and seemed always to have a new thought and melody Sousa’s musical works include 10 operas, many songs and suites, more) than 100 marches and “The Last Crusade.” perhaps his most preten- tious work for orchestra, organ and choir. His marches, however, are the! best known of his works. As far! back as 1885 a foreign musical jour-| nal in an article on martial music| bestowed upon Sousa the title “March King” and it became known through- out the musical world as a synonym for his own name. i Didn’t Have Favorite i The question “What do you con-| sider your best composition?” was of-} ten put to Sousa. Invariably he re-; : “In that respect I feel like the woman with several babies; there ig some good in all of them.” And as frequently he expressed his pride in his famous “The Stars and Stripes| Forever,” which he believed to be his) most popular march with the Ameri- can people. \for to squawk to the police. Besides, ' most of them are arrant cowards, and | it seemed a safe bet that if they were; abducted they would pay well fot their freedom. CHOPPERS So the “choppers"—the professional murderers—began to give it a trial.) In one city after another, little groups | of half a dozen or more took to prey-| ing on the shadowy and wealthy big) shots of gangland. A big-time gambler would be taken | captive and held until he could get | his family or his associates to cough | up anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000. | A head of a vice syndicate would be | the victim in one city; in another, al race track luminary; in another, a liquor distributor. From city to city the racket spread. It worked like a charm, Almost with- | out exception the kidnapers collected ; with a minimum of trouble. In most; cases the police never even found out} what was happening. | Then began the development which ought to relieve the ordinary citizen forever of his comfortable belief that gang wars don’t really matter because the gangsters only shoot each other. | EXPANSION Emboldened by their success, the kidnaping rings started to reach out law-abiding citizens—men of money and position and of absolute integrity. In New York last summer Charles! M. Rosenthal, wealthy broker, was idnaped and held prisoner for 18 days, until $50,000 had been paid for his release. As it happened, the po- lice got the four men who had seized im, and all four are now in Sing Sing prison serving 60-year sentences. Max Price, a rich real estate man jin New Haven, Conn., was kidnaped last spring and held until $25,000 ransom had been paid. His captors could not be found. In the west even more cases of this kind are on record. i Mrs, Nell Donnelly, ‘wealthy Kan- sas City woman, was kidnaped a few months ago and held for $50,000 ran-! som. She later was returned to her home, and it has not been made pub- lic whether or not the money was; paid. Dr. Isaac D. Kelly of St. Louis was kidnaped last year. and held for $150,- 000 ransom. He, too, was released after an undisclosed sum had been paid. Michael H. Katz, wealthy Kansas City business man, was another of the jkidnapers’ victims a year ago. His freedom cost him $100,000. Those are just a few citations from the record of the last year or two. They could be duplicated and redu- plicated. From New York to Denver! well-to-do people of tue highest standing have been seized by gang kidnapers in this newest and most dangerous of all the underworld’s ac- tivities. TRADES There are today highly organized kidnaping gangs in at least half a’ dozen large American cities. These gangs have working agreements with one another. A man kidnaped in De- troit, for example, can be sent to St. Louis and kept in custody by gan sters there; a New York gang can have men come on from Chicago to pull a job on Long Island. In Chicago, during the last two years, it is believed that fully 400 kid- napings have taken place. Some 300 kidnaping his regular hour for going to bed? : Yes. Will you tell the movements of Bet- Gow (the nurse) from the. time! ‘she put the baby to bed until the! kidnaping was discovered? Her movements were the usual movements. . No Report from Maine Is it true that: police are working on the tip that Johnson, when ar- rested, was on his way to Saco, Maine, where ‘a relative of his, Mrs. Howard Pinkham, has a baby farm?) The investigators assigned to that angle of the case have not reported as yet. Are there any new clues on the ladder? None. If the Lindbergh baby was ill, why did Betty Gow leave it from 7:30 to; 10 p. m.? The baby was not very ill. a slight cold. When will Colonel Lindbergh, Capt. Lamb, or someone in authority grant @ personal interview to clear many discrepancies in the case? There are no discrepancies given! out from here. Did Col. Breckinridge (attorney and friend of Lindbergh) see Spitale st_ night? Col. Breckinridge did not leave the house last night. It had) ! HUNDREDS OF RUMOR: KEEP WORLD GUESSING | Hopewell, N. J., March 7.—(@)—| Nine telephone lines poured “hot tips” | into the garage on the Lindbergh es- | tate Monday. ! The mails added hundreds more. Rumor, fantastic and bizarre, ran riot. Yet all available trustworthy in- formation and all clues, tips and the- ories boiled down to the facts: The 20-month-oid heir of Col. and Mrs, Charles A. Lindbergh | has not been found:. (2)There is nothing to indicate authorities have any knowledge of his where- abcuts; (3) and, despite various reports; there is no definite in- formation the kidnapers ever have communicated with the Lindberghs since they stole “the most famous baby in the world” from his crib last Tuesday night. Complete information on the prog- ress of the hunt for the child was be- coming more difficult to obtain be- cause of an apparent lack of full de- tails on the part of the state police in shane charge the hunt is presumed to be. The brief announcement Saturday, over the Lindberg signatures, that “Salvy” Spitale and Irving Bitz had authority to act as go-betweens in ne- gotiations for the baby's return, ap- parently was an action taken inde-| pendent of the authorities, for the| latter professed ignorance of the ac-/ tion. \ Named By Diamond Spitale and Bitz have been looked; upon as gang allies in the past. They were named by Jack (Legs) Diamond in a statement to a newspaperman | ‘published posthumously) as the men who shot him down in the Monticello hotel (New York) attack that ‘nearly | cost him his life. Spitale was ques- | tioned last year in connection with} Diamond’s murder, but was not held. | Newspapers theorized of the signifi- cance of the Lindbergh's action in naming gangsters as go-betweens. elephone, telegraph and radio mes- | Nazaire, well-known in the United ages above 30 cents; imported petro- States as the first port of debarkation si ‘eum and refined products; lubricating |Of the A. E. F. oil and malt syrup, grape concentrates| Thus it was that three sons of and wort: hae nies tavern-keepers — Briand, Gustav The treasury, through Secretary |Stresemann and Benito Mussolini— Mills, ‘has. pledged administration |Were the central figures in post-war support of the measure, which was,£uropean diplomacy for a considere evolved cooperatively by the Demo- jable period, as foreign ministers of cratic house leadership and the Re- France, Germany and Italy. publicans. Briand graduated in law and start- Full debate is promised in the house |¢d political life by writing for an an- and as tentatively planned, consider-!archist newspaper. He switched to ation will begin late'in the week. . |Iess radical views, e associated ] AP AN MIGHT LE AVE id waa unseated girs patter LEAGUE OF NATIONS the outbreak of the World War in aa July, 1914, and espoused the cause of Agitation’ For Such Action In- labor unions, In 1894 he distinguished himself at creases; Nipponese Ertvy U. S. Position a workingmen’s congress in Nantes, persuaded the gathering to adopt his ideas and became. recognized as a leader of Socialists. ‘Thereafter he was a frequent candidate for a seat in parliament but was unsuccessful until 1902. Breaks With Socialists He broke with the Socialists in March, 1906, when he saad tir the Tokyo, March 7—(P)—Agitation for |tninistry of education and public wor- the withdrawal of, Japan from the {Ship in the bourgeois cabinet of Sar- League of Nations increased Monday/|rien. By this step he drew upon him- as Officials and the public digested |self the furious invectives of Jaures, reports from Geneva describing ajbut he only shrugged his already condemnation of Japan's invasion of |stooped shoulders and for the next 25 China by smaller nations in the league | years continued to consort with fellow assembly: last Saturday. cabinet members of almost every shade Even . in official . quarters thejéf Womestic politicial belief. opinion was heard frequently Japan should withdraw from the league as|time in 1909. In 1910, when a general soon as the present conflict with|railway strike threatened, he called China is settled. One official said|all the workers to the colors and then Japan proposed to retain a garrison|designated them to run the trains. In in Shanghai's international .,settle-|parliament he hinted that imperial ment ‘after the withdrawal 6f the|Germany was waiting. for that par- main force now there. layzing strike to spring upon France. Officials said the status of this} He was premier again in 1913 and force, which probably would include |the outbreak of the war in 1914 found a division of 11,000 men, would be the |him vice president of the cabinet. In same as that of the American and/1915 and 1916 he once more was head British troops stationed there since |of the state, organized the Verdun re- 1927. sistance and backed the Salonika ex- “We have been looking enviously at} pedition, despite bitter criticism. the status of the United States con-|" His star dimmed at bit after the cerning the league,” one highly plac-|war, and he had some trouble in re- ed Japanese said. “She can work|taining his seat in parliament but with the league when it suits her and| yanuary, 1921, saw him back in power remain aloof when she wishes that.” |g premier and minister of foreign af- fairs. JAPS WOULD WITHDRAW M. Briand was @ bachelor and man Shanghai, March 7.—(P)—Japanese | of wealth. Often it was reported that authorities declared Monday theit|/ye was about to marry and once, troops would be withdrawn from| when his name was linked with that Shanghai as soon as it was made cer-|o¢ 9 beautiful young Frenth woman tain the Chinese army would noting made this characteristic denial: again enter the 12t:-mile zone and| «jo young woman would want to the offer brought Chinese and Jap- marry an nese peacemakers together again in Longing nnd Ten nM ery: Avistide Briand, (RIND WOMEN BURNED DEAD IN AUTOMOBILE Veteran French Statesman, Dead One Shot While Head of Other Is Crushed; Wisconsin (Continued from page One) Police Investigate At that time it was intimated the patient was not improwny. ‘Apostle of Peace’ Aristide Briand was the “apostle of peace” to the post-war world. He was co-author of the Kellog- Briand pact outlawing war, a moving spirit in the Locarno treaties which guaranteed the sanctity of the fron- tiers of Germany, Belgium and France and in 1930 was the originator of a comprehensive scheme for an econo- | mic union of Europe. In his own country he was 11 times premier, 16 times foreign minister, Balsam. Lake, Wis., March 7.—(?)— of two women, found in a blazing au- tomobile near Turtle Lake early Sun- here Monday while Polk county thorities sought to learn their iden’ and who had killed them. au- Briand was premier for the first|© Burned beyond recognition, the bodiesT day were at an undertaking room tity | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Capitol Removal from Bismarck to Inmextown, Submitted by initiative petition: To amend Section 215 of Article 19 of the Constitution by omitting the words ‘Bismarck’ and ‘Burleigh? and inserting in lieu thereof the words Jamestown’ and <stetuman’ respec tively so as to read as follows Measure for the amendment and nactment of Section 215 of Ar- ticle 19 of the Constitution of the State of North Dakota, locating and establishing the Seat of Government of this State at the City of Jamestown in the County of Stutsman, and locat- ing other State Institutions therein named at the places therein referred to, as here-to-fore designated by the original Section, and providing for th apportionment of certain land grants to institutions therein named, as heretofore apportioned by the original Sections of the Constitution as it is now written. BE JT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NORTH DA- g Public In- ently located at the places hereinaf- ter named, each to have the lands specifically granted to it by the ed States in the Act of Congress ap- proved February 22, 1889, to be di posed of and used in such’ manner as scribe subject to the limitations pro- vided in the Article on School and Public lands contained in this Con- stitution. FIRST: The Seat of Government at the City of Jamestown in the County of Stutwma SECO The State University and the School of Mines at the city of Grand Forks, in the County of Grand Forks. THIR The Agricultural College the City of Fargo, in the County of ass. FOURTH: A State Normal School at the City of Valley City, 1 y, in thi County of Barnes, and the degislative assembly, in apportioning the grant of eighty thousand acres of land for Normal Schools made in the Act of ‘ongress referred to shall grant to the said Normal School at Valley City, as aforementioned, sand (50,000) acres, and sald lands are hereby appropriated to said institu- tion for that purpose. FIFTH: The School for the deaf and dumb of City of Devils Lake, in the County of Ramse x! A State Training School at the City of Mandan, in the County of y XTH Morton. SEVENTH: A State Normal School at the City of Mayville, in the County of Trail, and the legislative assembly in epporiloning, the grant of lands made by Congress in the Act aforesaid for State Normal Schools shall assign thirty thousand (30,000) acres to the institution hereby ‘located at May- ville, and said lands are hereby ap- propriated for said purpose. SIGHTH: A State Hospital for the insane at the. City of Jamestown, 1 the County of Stutsman, And 't legislative assembly shall ap} twenty thousand acres of tl of lands made by the Act of Con- gress aforesaid for other educationa’ and charitable institutions to, the benefit and for the endowment of said jastitution and there shall be located at or near the City of Graf. ton, in the County of Walsh, and in- stitution for the feeble minded, on the grounds purchased by the Secre- tary of the Interior for a penitentiary building. Future Amendments to the Constitu- t lon Submitted by the legislature: ‘To amend Section 202 of Article 15 of the Constitution by omitting the word ‘twenty’ and inserting in liew thereof the word ‘forty’ so as to read A concurrent Resolution providing for the amendment of Section 202 of Article 15 of the Constitution of the State of North Dakota, relating to future amendments. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF RHE STATE OF-NORTH DA- A. That Section 202 of Article 15 of the Constitution of the State of North Dakota is hereby amended and re- enacted to read as follows: 202, Any amendment or amend- ments*to the Constitution of the State mays be proposed in either house of ho legislature, and if the same shall he agreed to upon roll call by a ma- te 0 the Legislative Assembly may pre- | 1 North Dakota at the |t large, Such special election shall be called by the Governor and shall be held not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred thirty days after the adjournment of the session of the legislature. ‘The Secretary of State shall pass upon each petition, and if he finds it insufficient he ‘shall notify the “committee for the petitioners” and allow twenty days for correction or amendment, All decisions of the Secretary of State in regard to any such petition hall be subject to review by the Su- Preme Court. But if the sufficiency of such petition is being reviewed at the time the ballot is prepared, the Secretary of State shall place the measure on the ballot and no subse- quent decision shall invalidate such measure If it is at such election ap- proved by a majority of the votes cast thereon. If proceedings are brought against anyepetition upon any ground, the burden of proof hall be upon the party attacking it. No law shall be enacted limiting the number of copies of a_petition which may be circulated. Such co- ples shall become a part of the original petition when filed or at- tached thereto. Nor shall any law enacted prohibiting any person from giving or recelving compensation for circulating the petition, nor in any manner interfering with the freedom in_securing signatures to petitions. Each petition shall have printed thereon a. ballot title which shall fairly represent the subject matter of the measure, and the names of at least five electors who shall consti. tute the “committee for the peti tioners” and who shall represent and act for the petitioners. The enacting clause of all measures initiated by the electors, shall be: “B it enacted by the people of the State of North Dakota” in submitting mea- sures to the electors, the Secretary of State and all other officials shall be guided by the election laws until ad- ditional legislation shall be provid- If conflicting measures initiated by or referred to the electors shall be approved by @ majority of the votes cast thereon, the one receiving the highest number of affirmative votes fifty thou-|shall become the law The word “measure” in shall include any la‘ ment thereto, resolution, 8 used here- or amend- legislative Proposal or enactment of any charac- r er. ‘The veto power of the Governor shall not extend to the measures ini- tiated by or referred to the electors. No measure enacted or approved by a vote of the electors shall be re- pealed or amended by the legislature, except upon a yea and nay vote upon roll call of two thirds of all the mem- bers elected to each house. ‘This section shall be self-executing and all of its provisions shall be treated as mandatory. Laws may be enacted to facilitate its operation, but no Jaw shall be enacted to hamper, restrict or impair the exercise of the rights herein reserved to the people. REFERRED MEASURE GASOLINE TAX Senate Bill No. 100, 1931 Seani Approved by Governor, March 11, sul Referes bmitted by referendum petition: Act to amend and re-enact Sec- tions 2, 3 and 5 of Chapter 166, Ses- sion Laws of North Dakota for the year 1929, and providing for a tax of four cents per gallon upon motor vehicle fuels, and further providing for the distribution of the revenues derived from said tax. LEGIs- Secti 1. AMENDMENT.) That Section 2 of Chapter 166, Session Laws of North Dakota for the year 1929, is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Section 2. That each and every dealer in motor vehicle fuel, as de- fined in this Act, who is now en- fiaeed, or who may hereafter engage in wn name, or in the name of others, or in the name of his repre- sentative or agents, in. this state, in the sale or use of motor vehicle fuel as herein defined, shall, not later than the 1oth day of each calendar month render to the State Auditor, on forms prescribed, prepared, and furnished by the State Auditor, # sworn statement of the number’ of gallons of motor vehicle fuel sold or used by him or them during the pre- ceding calendar month, which state- 33-1/3 per cent of the Counties’ shi for the construction, roti: maintenance and repairs of highway! bridges, culverts in the Federal Aid and State Aid Highways of said County. On making the payments to the State Auditor as provided in this section, the dealer shall first deduct (from)’ the amount of tax due, one and one-half per centum thereof to cover the cost of collecting sald tax and transmitting the same to th State Auditor, provided, that in orde! to reimburse the state on account of the expenses of carrying the provi- sions of this act Into effect, the State Auditor is hereby authorized and di- rected to credit to the general fund of the state, on the first day of July of each year, the sum of twenty-fivi thousand dollars out of the mone; collected as a license tax under the provisions of this act. INITIATED MEASURE ABSENT VOTERS BALLOT Submitted by initiative petition: ‘An Act to amend Chapter 136 of the 1931 Session Laws of the State of North Dakota. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NORTH DA- KOTA: That Chapter 136 of the Session Laws of the State of North Dakota for 1931 be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Section One, ,ABSENT VOTERS. WHO MAY VOTE. “Any qualified elector of this State having complied with the laws in regard to registration, who expects to be absent from the county in which he is an elector on the day of hold- ing any General or Primary Blectio: or who by reason of physical di ability is unable to attend at the poll ing place in his precinct to vote at any such election, may vote an sent voters ballot in the manner pr scribed in Article 16 of Chapter 11, of the Political Code of the Compiled Laws of North Dakota, of 1913. Section Two: Amendment: Section 993 of the Compiled Ls of the State of North Dakota for 1913, is hereby amended and re-enacted to reNPPLIGATION ‘APP: FOR | BALLOTS, MADE WHEN. At any time within thirty days next preceding such elec- tion, any voter expecting to be ab- sent on the day of election from the county in which his voting precinct is situated, or who by reason of phy- sical disability, Is unable to attend at the polling place in his precinct to yote at such election, may rocure from the County Auditor of such county an official absent voter's ballot to be voted at such election. Section Three: Amendment: Section 996 of Compiled Laws of 1018 of North Dakota, ts hereby ended and re-enacte: amended to read as PROCUREMENT OF BALLOT: Such absent voter's ballot may be procured by an absent voter by a per- sonal application and such application may be made either verbally or tn writing but such application shall be made only to the County Auditor per- sonally or to the Chief Deputy Audi- tor and no other employee in sald tice of sald County Auditor n have charge of or in any ‘manner ever deal w! yoters ballot. iad Beaton Fou uch absent voters ballot shall not be voted by the person securing the same in the courthouse or on’ the premises surrounding the courthous6, ut must be voted more than one hundred yards away from the prem- ises, and the affidavit on said absent Voters ballot shall be as follows: STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA) county or——___} 9 nnn, AO solemnly swear that of the Township of poe S reieat or the Villas or of the- Precinct of ti ‘Ward in the C! resiaing at in said City, County of. and State of North Dakota, and e! titled to vote in such Precinct at t! next electio at x t to be wu! able to attend the polls of my pre- cinct on the day of holding suci lec tion and that T will have no oppor- tunity to vote in person on that day and I further certify that said bal: lot was voted at a place more than u ge of hi ity of Te: have taken place in and around New York. In the country as a whole, it is believed that fully 2,000 kidnapings have been committted by organized gangs since the beginning of 1930. New York, oddly enough, has not been as effectively organized by the kidnapers as many middle - western cties have been. The racket here is still largely in the hands of small fry, the police say; one of its Lad hay 2 able subdivisions, for example, is said |i; Siive and safe.” to be a crew that specializes in kid- |" A Statement given by Spitale and among them “The Fifth String”;/naping the children of East Side| pit; to the New York Daily News “Pipetown Sandy”; “Dwellers in the| Italians and extracting payment from | wonday said: ‘Western World”; “The Transit of|the parents ‘on the installment plan. | No Ulterior Motives hal NEW YORK “we were asked by a representative ffousa was proud of what heclaimed| But the New York gangsters are! o¢ ie were eee at terion in ® record for having directed more|learning. Shortly before he was mA- | the hope the kidnapers would get in and the largest massed bands than|chine-gunned, the notorious Vincent | touch with us. We had no ulterior other bandmaster. Coll was reported to have tried to’ motives in sacrificing ourselves—be- ‘ was born at Washington, D.| kidnap one of the leutenants of | cause sacrifice it is—to ald the Lind- ©., Nov. 6, 1854, the son of Antonio|Ownle Madden, generally credited! perghs. We hope for no Elizabeth Trinkhaus Sousa. with being head of New York's biggest | profit whatsoever. 1879 Sousa married Miss Jane|iiquor ring. It is rumored that it was! “Purther, we have not been in ‘Bellis of Pennsylvania. this exploit which led to Coll’s mr-| communication with the kidnapers, der. nor have they been in communication . GANGSTER IS WOUND! Coll also is believed to have been Ee us.” jority of the members elected to each house it shall be submitted to the electors and if a majority of the votes cast thereon are affirmative, such amendment shall be a part of this Constitution, Amendments to the Constitution of the State may also be proposed by initiative petition of the elector such petition shall be signed by fort: thousand of the electors at large ant hall be filed with the Secretary of @ at least one hundred twenty jays prior to the election at which they are to be voted upon, and any amendment or amendments 80 pro- posed shall be submitted to the ele tors and shall become a part of t! Constitution, it a majority of the votes cast thereon are affirmativ ft the Constitution re jon and adop- y initiative petition and on referendum petition, ment shall be sworn to by one of th principal officers in caso’ of domestic corporation; or by the resident gen. gral agent, or agents, or attorney-in fact, or by a chief accountant or o: ficer in case of a foreign corpora- tion; by tho managing agent or own- er in case of a firm, association or in- dividual; and shali contain a state- ment of the quantities of motor vehicle fuel sold or used within the State of North Dakot: his or Among others of Sousa’s marches that were popular favorites were “The High School Cadet”; “Semper ” ‘The Washington Post” Some of them saw in the announce-/four times minister of the interior, ment an indication Col. Lindbergh | thrice minister of justice (which car- had heard directly from the abduc- |ries with the office the vice-presidency tors and that the naming of Spitale and Bitz was the result of such com- munication. Monday morning's New York Amer- ican said a communication “accepted as a valid message from the child’s captors,” had reached the Lindberghs and that it gave assurance “the baby 19. 3 and 1 the affiant. exhib ballots to sh Presence of no other perso: Such manner that I could mot soe hie or her vote, marked such ballot, and enclosed and sealed the same in this envelope, That the affiant was not solicited or advised by me to vol for or against any candidate or mi Sure. And I further certify that sald ballot was voted ata Diace more yards from id ballot was One woman had been shot twice through the head, and the head of the other one had been crushed. Their bodies. were placed in the bottom of the car and it was set on fire. Pass- ing motorists noticed the blaze and notified Sheriff James Olson of Bal- sam Lake. Investigators expressed belief the double killing was the work of gang- sters and premeditated as the license plates had been removed and the tire tossed inside the car to be of ———___ ereby certify that ited the enclosed be unmarked, that he or e then, in my presence and in the \ kidnapers would be more willing to deal with someone they believed would have the gang viewpoint, than with lawyers or the Lindbergh fam- ily itself. Spitale has been arrested once, ac- cording to police records, but has nev- er pean souyicied, G a crime. Bitz's spare Tecord shows a felony conviction. | consumed by the fire. A piece of un- Still Question Johnson marked hotel stationery led to the Henry (Red) Johnson, the sailor | discovery the victims left a St. Paul friend of Miss Betty Gow, nursemaid| hotel Saturday after registering as|t to the stolen baby, still was detained | wargaret and Margie Pérry of Chi- early Monday. He was arrested in| cago, both probably assumed names. Hartford, Conn., late last week when] wyforts will be made to identify the police found his automobile and ®) women through dental work, and @ milk bottle in it. ‘Minnea} A statement by Johannsen Junge, | from Se, aid Polk county tion. husband of a seamstress employed at ve the home of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Two Plead Guilty His operas rs”; “Queen of Hearts”; “Bride Elect”; “The Charlatan”, and “Chris and the Won- derful Lamp. In addition to musical composition Sousa was author of several books, their respective places of bi and if any of such motor vane ae has been sold and delivered by said dealer to customers in the original package, whether in tank cars, bar- rels or other packages and in the e form and condition in which the same was imported, said statement shall show the amount of motor ve- hicle fuel so id and and n meare Or ene Persons, firm or ly oi the sub auiasion ene eaoption of cS deal 4 ee Lp sae was mendments to the Constitution 0} jealer shall pay a 1 four cents per gallon on ail motey Uewislative F tiative andl Vehicle fuel 3 Be means ve ehicle fuel used and sold es gther than such fuel sold by kim ae original packages ‘of Article 2| above specitied, as Constitution by omitting the| option of paying sald tie nye the ords ‘ten’ and ‘even? and inserting | cents per gallon on-all motor vehicle in lieu thereof the words “thirty? and | fuel sold by him or them, in the sce ‘twenty-five? respectively adding the| in tho original backages in the state, sentence e oF refe wae 4 ae gulat socials coe ro oh eee. eer luring a re; iF OF #j nension of Vhenever ay the legtsinture's and” omitting the| dealer of motor vere fuel in “the paragraph, (AM measures submftted | original packages in which the nan’ fo the electors shall be pablished by | was imported ay above mpociteg, ne than one hundred courthouse ‘whe cured, ne to absent y, connive witi son fh deem a fel oltre ballots wh a in, violating sald law’ snail be ut be, ed guilty of the commission of Penitentiary for not year and not to exceed rh e ye in addi fin ition thereto ghall b ie jousand doll shal! lose his citizenship and forfaia any right to hold ihe State of North Baxota offie® ' REP! 9 Section Six: REPEAL: the Compit of 1913 4 Fiereby ot. together with all Acts in conflict Parts of paragraph, or We analt be be inoper thereof force and responsible for the kidnaping of “Big| The naming of Spitale and Bitz did oday Charles O'Donnell, one of |Prench” De Mange, one of Dutch | not close the door to any other meth- ‘ib seven O'Donnell brothers long|schultz’s beer-running mob. De od of communication the kidnapers ted with control of the south|Mange's release cost his gang $35,000.| might prefer. “We will follow any | beer distribution, had a chance] Legs Diamond, a small-time rack-|other method suggested by the kid- gunners | eteer time publicity, also | napers that we can be sure will bring part in kidnap-|the retukn of our child,” the state- | ment of the Lindt said. | How’ the Lindberghs happened to [ing racket stems directly out of the/| select Spitale and Bitz as go-betweens whols highly-organized _und:rworld | remained a mystery. The general be- | framework that public officials laa bd here is the Lindberghs feit the is made by c 98 of akota, Pressly repea Rrewsly repented herewith, In case any section, clause of a d this {nittat. declared by the courts te tive the ‘remainder nevertheless be in fu) 6-25-3-1 wood, tended to remove Johnson from suspicion as a participant in the kid- naping. Junge said he and Johnson went to the Morrow home last Tues- ing—about 9 o'clock, and that John-| Little Falls, Minn., March 7.—(?)\— son telephoned Miss Gow from there. |Less than 48 hours after being arrest- | Of State nball cause to be printed aug | thereof an invoice of such motor Whet she told him she could not seejed, Arthur Shaffer of Grand Rapids! pamphict, containing w copy of eck | address of the pan eace, name and him that night, Johnson took Junge|and Harold Cook, of near Little Palls,|meanure tokether with {ts ballot title, |and kind of fuel wold, and whine, tomobile. They drove around Engle-|Farmers State Bang of Upsala last | tanto: y submit to the Eyepay tie diconse tax Lipa Tunas. sald, until midnight. | Nov. 6. They were to be sentenced State pete ROR IPRSe e abduction occurred sometime jlater in the day. = bes between 8:30 and 10 p. m. | Elmer Simons, alleged leader of tne jt rein, upon first subserib- | ment aby and feigned death and the jebe assassins drove away. (Mrs. Lindbergh’s mother) in Engle- To Bank ‘Robbery fee cae pine ot ee ae the State au follow: “The Secretary | dealer shall deliver to the purchice for a'ride in his newly purchased au-|Monday pleaded guilty to robbing the | {0 be submitted nt any clection. Any | not sald dealer assiimes and agrees ‘Ramen and pi ove specified, di Of all euch invoice vasied sic4 are si issued andj